Nixon Warns of Russian Missile Threat and ABM Expansion
President Nixon told Congress the Soviet growth in intercontinental missiles threatens U S retaliatory capability and urged expansion of the Safeguard ballistic missile defense program as the best immediate response. He cited estimates of 1590 missiles for Russia and 1710 for the United States, and pressed for potential future arms reductions through negotiation.
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Nixon
Washington
Congress
Russia
Soviet Union
United States
Shaker Village Work Camp to be Sold for 380000
The historic Shaker Village Work Group on Lebanon Mountain faces sale to a Hartford based organization led by Dr Wil Ham Pepper. The 840 acre site near Darrow School Road will be operated as before with same staff and philosophy under seller Sybil Count. The June 3 closing was set in the signed agreement, with purchaser details limited to Steinberg as representative. The camp fosters teenage work projects plus restoration of Shaker buildings.
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New Lebanon
N.Y
Lebanon Mountain
Darrow School Road
Ingeph
Steinberg
Hartford
Conn
Count
Sybil Count
Shaker Relig
Hancoc
Pepper
Saigon Aide Defends Phoenix Against Counter-Terror Charge
William E Colby told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Operation Phoenix in South Vietnam cannot be viewed as a counter-terror program despite illegal killings. Colby, head of CORDS, defended pacification efforts and explained Phoenix is a key element under U S command in Saigon. Nixon praised Vietnamization as on schedule and the nonmilitary progress as encouraging, calling the pacification work remarkable.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
South Vietnam
William E. Colby
Saigon
Vietnam
Colby
Sen. J. W. Fulbright
Phoeix
Phoenix
CORDS
U.S. Command
U.S
Creighton W. Abrams
Nixon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Freedom Foundation
Valley Forge
Amherst blacks seize five campus buildings demand self set programs
About 200 black students seized five Amherst College buildings citing a meaningless dialogue with administration and demanding self determination of programs and direction. Campus police briefly controlled access. classes continued as a student strike failed to gain momentum. no whites involved. two course Black Studies efforts seen as inadequate.
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Amherst
Mass
Amherst College
Robert Frost
Converse
Black Cultural Center
University of Massachusetts
Smith
Mount Holyoke
Hyn Women’s Colleges
WAME
David Pilgrim
Five-Colege Afro-American Society
Hampshire College
Oth
Conspiracy Case Resolves in Chicago Jury Verdict
A federal jury convicted five men of inciting violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and acquitted seven others on conspiracy charges. After 40 hours of deliberation, David P. Detlinger, Jerry C. Rubin, Abbott Hoffman, Thomas Hayden, and Bennard Davis were found guilty of crossing state lines to promote rioting.
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Chicago
David P. Detlinger
Jerry C. Rubin
Abbott Hoffman
Thomas Hayden
Bennard
Davis
McCormack Survives Leadership Challenge in House
Washington AP report says Speaker John W. McCormack narrowly survived a leadership challenge as House Democrats tabled a no confidence resolution. A second resolution urged a study of Congress organization, potentially impacting the seniority system. Rep. Jerome Waldie of California had warned of limited support.
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Washington
John W. McCormack
House Democrats
Organization of Congress
Jerome R. Waldie
California
McCormack
Minnerly Named Berkshire School Headmaster Designate
Robert Wark Minnerly will succeed John F. Godman as headmaster of Berkshire School effective Sept. 1. Minnerly, 25, currently serves as Godman’s assistant and has been at Berkshire since 1964. The board lauded his academic qualifications and leadership as the school expands and begins coeducation with 12 girls admitted this year.
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Godman
Berkshire School
Minnerly
Sheffield
Robert Wark
John F. Godman
James C. Kellogg
Brown University
Godsman
Board of Trustees
Army Air Force
Germantown Academy
Gorton High School
Yonkers
N.Y
Brown
Navy
Rumsey Hall School
Washington, Conn
Salisbury Summer School of
Sandra Overmire
University of Vermont
Berkshire
Scott
John
Seaver Burton Buck
Kelloge
Mistrial Sought In Chicago Riot Conspiracy Case
A Chicago jury in the 1968 Democratic National Convention riot conspiracy case entered its fifth day of deliberations as defense counsel sought a mistrial and an immediate hearing amid a note that the jury is deadlocked. Attorneys Kuntsler and Weinglass filed the motion after a long day of evidence. Judge Hoffman warned of possible mixed outcomes and questioned the jurors’ willingness to bargain.
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Chicago
U.S. District Court
William M. Kunstler
Leonard J. Weinglass
Julius J. Hoffman
Town Meeting Season Runs Across Berkshire Towns
West Stockbridge near rejection of 305273 school payment while approving over 1.3 million. Dalton okays school costs and fights over dog limits, police funding, and recounts. Great Barrington moves to legalize dumps and allow trailer parks, Stockbridge votes for year round liquor sales and park land use, and awaits Lee Lenox Williamstown meetings with Clarksburg Mar 25.
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West Stockbridge
Dalton
Stockbridge
Egremont
Red Lion Inn
Tanglewood
Austen Riggs
Lee
Lenox
Williamstown
Clarksburg
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New York Times News Service
Ty Jeff Bradley
Ected
Tassone Studio
Robert W. Minnerly
Federal
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Wash
Chicago 7
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Alford
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